Nile

Identified as

Nile River

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.465° N, 30.367° E

Shihor· Sihor

• יְאֹר·Nile
• שִׁיחוֹר·Shihor

1. Genesis 41:1יְאֹר · Nile
   After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
2. Genesis 41:2יְאֹר · Nile
   …when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
3. Genesis 41:3יְאֹר · Nile
   After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
4. Genesis 41:17יְאֹר · Nile
   Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
5. Genesis 41:18יְאֹר · Nile
   …when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
6. Exodus 1:22יְאֹר · Nile
   Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
7. Exodus 2:3יְאֹר · Nile
   But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
8. Exodus 2:5יְאֹר · Nile
   Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
9. Exodus 4:9יְאֹר · Nile
   But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”
10. Exodus 7:15יְאֹר · Nile
    Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
11. Exodus 7:17יְאֹר · Nile
    This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD. Behold, with the staff in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will turn to blood.
12. Exodus 7:18יְאֹר · Nile
    The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
13. Exodus 7:19יְאֹר · Nile
    And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and all the reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.”
14. Exodus 7:20יְאֹר · Nile
    Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron raised the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was turned to blood.
15. Exodus 7:21יְאֹר · Nile
    The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
16. Exodus 7:24יְאֹר · Nile
    So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.
17. Exodus 7:25יְאֹר · Nile
    And seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.
18. Exodus 8:3יְאֹר · Nile
    The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
19. Exodus 8:5יְאֹר · Nile
    And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.’”
20. Exodus 8:9יְאֹר · Nile
    Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have the honor over me. When shall I pray for you and your officials and your people that the frogs (except for those in the Nile) may be taken away from you and your houses?”
21. Exodus 8:11יְאֹר · Nile
    The frogs will depart from you and your houses and your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”
22. Exodus 17:5יְאֹר · Nile
    And the LORD said to Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
23. 1 Chronicles 13:5שִׁיחוֹר · Shihor
    So David assembled all Israel, from the River Shihor in Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
24. Isaiah 19:6יְאֹר · Nile
    The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
25. Isaiah 19:7יְאֹר · Nile
    The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.
26. Isaiah 19:8יְאֹר · Nile
    Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
27. Isaiah 23:3יְאֹר · Nile
    On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
28. Isaiah 23:10יְאֹר · Nile
    Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.
29. Jeremiah 2:18שִׁיחוֹר · Shihor
    Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
30. Jeremiah 46:7יְאֹר · Nile
    Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?
31. Jeremiah 46:8יְאֹר · Nile
    Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
32. Ezekiel 29:3יְאֹר · Nile
    Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
33. Ezekiel 29:9יְאֹר · Nile
    The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’
34. Ezekiel 30:12יְאֹר · Nile
    I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
35. Amos 8:8יְאֹר · Nile
    Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
36. Amos 9:5יְאֹר · Nile
    The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
37. Nahum 3:8יְאֹר · Nile
    Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
38. Zechariah 10:11יְאֹר · Nile
    They will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.